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title: In 1955 the EOKA organisation was founded, seeking union with Greece… — Cyprus · tree and pragmatics
description: In 1955 the EOKA organisation was founded, seeking union with Greece through armed struggle. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Cyprus» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Cyprus, sentence 148

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From Wikipedia, [«Cyprus»](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyprus), revision of the 2026-09-01 dump, [CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/). The trees and pragmatics of these pages, Mova's parse of that text, are CC BY-SA 4.0 too.

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In 1955 the EOKA organisation was founded, seeking union with Greece through armed struggle.

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**What happens:** found, seek · **To what, where:** EOKA organisation, 1955, union, armed struggle

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This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Cyprus». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong. The article's note marks are left out of the parse.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = wikipedia:Cyprus:148
# text = In 1955 the EOKA organisation was founded, seeking union with Greece through armed struggle.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	1955	1955	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	7	obl	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	EOKA	EOKA	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	organisation	organisation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj:pass	_	_
6	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	aux:pass	_	_
7	founded	found	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
9	seeking	seek	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	7	advcl	_	_
10	union	union	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
11	with	with	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	Greece	Greece	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
13	through	through	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	armed	armed	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	struggle	struggle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **found** | past · passive |  | the EOKA organisation |  | 1955 |  |  | vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |
| 2 | **seek** | gerund |  | union |  | armed struggle |  | with Greece | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent union=Theme through struggle=Location |

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One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

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**Text:** the English Wikipedia, «Cyprus», revision of the 2026-09-01 dump, CC BY-SA 4.0. **Tree:** Mova's own parse, CC BY-SA 4.0 as the text is. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the article read in order, CC BY-SA 4.0.

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